carl, that would be a two-year $90 billion deal offering equal sequester relief for both domestic and defense programs, not likely to touch the hot buttons of tax increases or medicare and social security, more mundane revenue raisers, things like selling federal assets and aviation fees and on the entitlement side, hitting federal retirement but not medicare and social security. so that would be under wheming, but i know there's a lot of trader interest in that. it does appear they're going to reach that deal and it makes it much less likely we have a showdown in january that could result in another shutdown. >> that is good news, i guess you could argue for the market. the other thing, too, john, is to what degree the president continues this campaign of reselling the affordable care act, something that sounds like he's going to make it a daily occurrence from here on out. >> what he's got to do -- this is the most important program of his presidency -- is persuade people, despite all they've heard about the problems with the web site, other objections being raised by critics about privacy,